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The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

Reconstruction of a living Mirarce eatoni

November 13, 2018

The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

A 75 million year old bird skeleton from a threatened national monument in Utah represents the most complete skeleton ever found in North America for a long extinct group of birds called enantiornithines. This large, fossilized bird provides important new insight into the evolution of flight. It has several advanced adaptations for flying, which show that the Enantiornithes evolved these features separately from living birds.

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November 2, 2018

Structure, dynamics and predicted functional role of the gut microbiota of the blue (Haliotis fulgens) and yellow (H. corrugata) abalone from Baja California Sur, Mexico

Francesco Cicala, José Alejandro Cisterna-Céliz, James D. Moore, Axayácatl Rocha-Olivares

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5830 PubMed 30405968

November 2, 2018

imGLAD: accurate detection and quantification of target organisms in metagenomes

Juan C. Castro, Luis M. Rodriguez-R, William T. Harvey, Michael R. Weigand, Janet K. Hatt, Michelle Q. Carter, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5882 PubMed 30405973

November 7, 2018

PromoterPredict: sequence-based modelling of Escherichia coli σ⁷⁰ promoter strength yields logarithmic dependence between promoter strength and sequence

Ramit Bharanikumar, Keshav Aditya R. Premkumar, Ashok Palaniappan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5862 PubMed 30425888

November 14, 2018

Integration of phylogenomics and molecular modeling reveals lineage-specific diversification of toxins in scorpions

Carlos E. Santibáñez-López, Ricardo Kriebel, Jesús A. Ballesteros, Nathaniel Rush, Zachary Witter, John Williams, Daniel A. Janies, Prashant P. Sharma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5902 PubMed 30479892

November 13, 2018

Toxicity of Melaleuca alternifolia essential oil to the mitochondrion and NAD⁺/NADH dehydrogenase in Tribolium confusum

Min Liao, Qian-Qian Yang, Jin-Jing Xiao, Yong Huang, Li-Jun Zhou, Ri-Mao Hua, Hai-Qun Cao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5693 PubMed 30479882

November 9, 2018

Model-based in silico analysis of the PI3K/Akt pathway: the elucidation of cross-talk between diabetes and breast cancer

Sammia Rehman, Ayesha Obaid, Anam Naz, Amjad Ali, Shahzina Kanwal, Jamil Ahmad

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5917 PubMed 30515357

November 12, 2018

CMTCN: a web tool for investigating cancer-specific microRNA and transcription factor co-regulatory networks